A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind |
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind |
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be... |
But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. |
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. |
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. |
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. |
Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent |
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. |
He [Clemenceau] had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind. |
I do not know which makes a man more conservative to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past |
I do not know which makes a man more conservative to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past |
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. |
Ideas shape the course of history. |
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. |